MEMORABLE SCENE.
SIEGE OF THE SOCIALISTS. LONDON, February 14. The Vienna correspondent of the "Daily Express" says: "The siege of the Socialists' stronghold at Floridsdorf at sunset was a memorable spectacle. Behind me glowed hills, below me whirled the Danube, before me loomed a towering workers' apartment block where shells were exploding 011 turretlike roofs which harboured nests of machine-guns. Socialist outposts returned the fire from the garden and outhouses. "Near the Danube I saw two civilians fall, struck by bullets. While crossing a bridge I passed officers' cars with broken windscreens. Grey lines of troops fell back while pioneers built pontoon bridges |ver marshes in order to attack the Socialists in the rear. "Nazis continue to observe strict neutrality. Observers are of the opinion that they are biding their time, hoping the Socialists will be defeated and that then the Dollfuss Government will be so discredited owing to the bloodshed , that the Nazis' task of assuming power . will be made easy. "The Austrian navy, consisting of 1 one river monitor, used its light guns on Floridsdorf and aided in the reduc- , tion of that stronghold."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 39, 15 February 1934, Page 7
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186MEMORABLE SCENE. Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 39, 15 February 1934, Page 7
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